Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico – August 20, 2009

Happy Birthday to my friend, Chuck.
Also, this weekend, Diane and Samantha!!

Wow! First an earthquake and now a hurricane coming to Philadelphia…

Please comment.

This Day in History (August 26)
1981     Voyager 2 takes photo’s of Saturn’s moon Titan
1972     20th Olympic games open at Munich, West Germany
1967     Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1964     Lyndon B. Johnson nominated at Democratic convention
1952     Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
1951     Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1946     George Orwell published "Animal Farm"
1939     1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York)
1929     1st U.S. roller coaster built
1920     19th amendment passes – women’s suffrage granted
1907     Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1883     Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1873     1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis
1843     Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1791     John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat
1629     Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
580       Chinese invents toilet paper

Today’s Birthdays
1980     Macaulay Culkin, New York City, actor, Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich
1960     Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist, Bring on the Night, Tonight Show
1952     Michael Jeter, born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, actor, Fisher King
1949     Leon Redbone, American Musician
1945     Tom Ridge, born in Munhall, Pennsylvania, Representative-
            R-Pennsylvania 1983 – 1995, Governor Pennsylvania 1995 – 2001,
            1st Secretary of Homeland Security
1941     Barbara Ehrenreich, American Writer
1938     Maurice Williams, rocker
1935     Geraldine Ferraro, born in Newburgh, New York, Representative-D-New York 1979 – 1985,
            1st female Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1984
1921     David Begelman, film producer
1921     William Preston, Columbia Penn, actor, Fisher King, Waterworld
1919     Ronny Graham, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor, Bob Crane Show, Chico and the Man
1917     Jan Clayton, Tularosa, New Mexico, actress, Ellen Miller-Lassie
1915     Jim Davis, born in Edgerton, Missouri, actor, Jack Ewing-Dallas
1906     Albert B Sabin, Russia, U.S. microbiologist, oral polio vaccine
1901     Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer, Fiat
1898     Peggy Guggenheim, art patron and collector
1884    Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor, Linotype machine
1873     Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube
1838     John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln
1819     Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria
1743     Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry, Oxygen

 
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